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  • A Table for All: Veszprém’s Long Table Picnic and Biodiversity Festival 2025

    On 22 June, the heart of Veszprém transformed into a celebration of nature, community, and conviviality as the city hosted its Long Table Picnic and Biodiversity Festival – a flagship event in Hungary

  • Virtual tour of Arta municipal museum with the city digital twin, from the ISI Patras Testing Action

    Testing for the urban metaverse: highlights from the Testing Actions of the METACITY network

    By Eurico Neves, Lead Expert of the METACITY URBACT APN project, Chairperson of INOVA+ S.A.

  • Celebrating Europe day in Gozo and Malta!

    This May, the URBACT and European Urban Initiative (EUI) Contact Point in Malta took part in national Europe Day events to raise awareness of EU-funded opportunities for local councils, citizens and

  • First ULG meeting in Újbuda

    The importance of ULGs in the RECUP project

    What are ULGs? Why do we need them? We introduce one of the key elements of the RECUP project, the local stakeholder groups that provide the basis of the work and the most insight in every city’s

  • BiodiverCity: Mar Menor, the first ecosystem in Europe with legal personhood and rights

    Mar Menor, the „small sea”, is not small at all, and it is very different from the Mediterranean Sea, the “Mar Mayor” (the “greater sea”). Mar Menor is the biggest coastal saltwater lagoon in the

  • Group photo of representatives of the Project Partners at the 2nd Core Network meeting in Valéncia.

    The URBACT Network “REinventing Culture in Urban Places”: a journey across Europe to reconnect communities

    Culture is not just an act of consumption, it is a dynamic process of creation.” This statement sums up the mission of the ITN REinventing Culture in Urban Places (RECUP) Network, an initiative

  • Participative governance
    SDG wheel

    Walking a fine line: how civil servants can work with sustainable development amidst political polarisation

    What’s the issue? 

    When asked what sustainable development means to them, the participants of the Agents of Co-existence fifth online academy had lots of ideas: from “working together” and “co-creating

  • URBACT Pioneers Accelerator programme

    URBACT Pioneers Accelerator: 27 cities embark on a unique learning journey

    URBACT is proud to launch the URBACT Pioneers Accelerator - a bespoke learning programme designed exclusively for cities from accession countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North

  • Veszprém , Hungary - Wildflower cities

    Naturbasierte Stadtentwicklung auf neue Weise denken - 8 URBACT Good Practices

    In ganz Europa entdecken Städte das Potenzial der Natur wieder: Sie machen aus Grünflächen soziale Treffpunkte, verwandeln Industrieareale in Biodiversitäts-Hotspots, lassen Parks in den Vorstädten